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This Week In Wrestling History (Season 4 Episode 14: 4/2 – 4/8)
Published 6 months ago
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Enjoy this episode (Season 4 Episode 14) covering the week of 4/2 thru 4/8. Running Time: 5 Hours 40 Minutes. Hundreds of hours of original wrestling clips & stories. Enjoy this deep dive into pro wrestling's awesome history. You won't find history shows like this anywhere but here! SYNOPSIS: SEASON 4 EPISODE 14 (4/2 - 4/8)
RUNNING TIME: 5 HOURS 40 MINUTES
- Audio: Andy Kaufman hospitalized after taking a pair of piledrivers from Jerry 'The King' Lawler. And the entertainment world buys it hook, line, and sinker
- Ken Patera and Masa Saito arrested after brawling with Wisconsin police over McDonald's hamburgers
- Looking back at WrestleMania 2 (1986), V (1989), VIII (1992), IX (1993), XI (1995), 2000 (2000), 21 (2005), 22 (2006), XXV (2009), XXVII (2011), XXIX (2013), XXX (2014), 32 (2016), 33 (2017), 34 (2018), 35 (2019), 38 (2022), 39 (2023), 40 (2024)
- Looking back at NWA Clash of the Champions 6: Ragin' Cagin (1989)
- Looking back at AWA SuperClash IV (1990)
- Shawn Michaels debuts new Raw talk segment: The Heartbreak Hotel
- Memorable Raw Women's Match that rarely gets any mention: Alundra Blayze vs. Bull Nakano for the WWF Women's Championship
- Bertha Faye makes WWF Raw debut
- Audio: Ultimate Warrior makes Raw debut and has a memorable exchange with Goldust
- Following a beatdown by Vader, Yokozuna is carried to the locker room by forklift
- Looking back at WCW Spring Stampede (1997)
- Audio: "Hulk Hogan, we coming for you n*****!" - Booker T
- Audio: Droz makes ECW debut and is greeted by New Jack, a keyboard, crutch, guitar, and vacuum cleaner
- Audio: Rob Van Dam def. Bam Bam Bigelow and begins 700-day run as ECW TV Champion
- Looking back at WCW Pay-Per-Listen: Malice at the Palace (1998)
- Looking back at ECW Cyberslam '99
- WCW prepares their hard reboot of their product and TV (2000)
- Shawn Michaels comes out of retirement and wins Texas Wrestling Alliance (TWA) Championship
- HHG Corporation (ECW) files for bankruptcy
- Audio: TNN censors understand Japanese: Tajiri 'breaks up' with Torrie Wilson and gets censored
- Audio: The Rock's last ever non-PPV TV match (vs. Jeff Hardy, 2003)
- Audio: The Rock's memorable 'challenge' to Goldberg
- Umaga makes WWF Raw debut and lays out Ric Flair
- Kevin Nash returns to WWF TV after nine-month absence due to a quad tear
- Roddy Piper returns to WWF TV after seven-year absence and has first 'Piper's Pit' in fourteen years
- Audio: Vince McMahon and The Product Of His Semen vs. Shawn Michaels and God announced for Backlash PPV
- All five members of The Spirit Squad are recognized as WWE Tag Team Champions
- Mickie James, complete with blonde hair, cosplays Trish Stratus
- Audio: Jack Swagger cashes in MITB Briefcase and wins World Heavyweight Championship
- CM Punk attempts to have Darren Young join the Straight Edge Society
- Things do happen in threes. TNA Impact episode holds the goofy TNA Knockouts Lockout Challenge, unprotected chairshots to the head, and Orlando Jordan simulating an ejaculation to his chest (2010)
- Wrestlicious fails miserably and closes its doors
- WWE signs Dean Ambrose and Becky Lynch
- The Rock vs. John Cena announced a year before WrestleMania XXVIII
- Sin Cara (original) makes WWE Raw debut
- Kurt Angle pleads guilty to reckless driving after 03/25/11 DWI incident in North Dakota
- Audio: Following a very boring John Cena promo on Raw, Brock Lesnar returns to WWE after eight-year absence and F-5's Cena
- Daniel Bryan 'breaks up' with AJ Lee
- Scott Steiner goes on Twitter storm against TNA and Hulk Hogan
- Looking back at Ring of Honor: Supercard of Honor 2013, 2014, 2022 and 2024
- Looking back at NJPW: Invasion Attack 2013-2015
- Audio: One of the loudest crowd 'pops' in Raw history: D
RUNNING TIME: 5 HOURS 40 MINUTES
- Audio: Andy Kaufman hospitalized after taking a pair of piledrivers from Jerry 'The King' Lawler. And the entertainment world buys it hook, line, and sinker
- Ken Patera and Masa Saito arrested after brawling with Wisconsin police over McDonald's hamburgers
- Looking back at WrestleMania 2 (1986), V (1989), VIII (1992), IX (1993), XI (1995), 2000 (2000), 21 (2005), 22 (2006), XXV (2009), XXVII (2011), XXIX (2013), XXX (2014), 32 (2016), 33 (2017), 34 (2018), 35 (2019), 38 (2022), 39 (2023), 40 (2024)
- Looking back at NWA Clash of the Champions 6: Ragin' Cagin (1989)
- Looking back at AWA SuperClash IV (1990)
- Shawn Michaels debuts new Raw talk segment: The Heartbreak Hotel
- Memorable Raw Women's Match that rarely gets any mention: Alundra Blayze vs. Bull Nakano for the WWF Women's Championship
- Bertha Faye makes WWF Raw debut
- Audio: Ultimate Warrior makes Raw debut and has a memorable exchange with Goldust
- Following a beatdown by Vader, Yokozuna is carried to the locker room by forklift
- Looking back at WCW Spring Stampede (1997)
- Audio: "Hulk Hogan, we coming for you n*****!" - Booker T
- Audio: Droz makes ECW debut and is greeted by New Jack, a keyboard, crutch, guitar, and vacuum cleaner
- Audio: Rob Van Dam def. Bam Bam Bigelow and begins 700-day run as ECW TV Champion
- Looking back at WCW Pay-Per-Listen: Malice at the Palace (1998)
- Looking back at ECW Cyberslam '99
- WCW prepares their hard reboot of their product and TV (2000)
- Shawn Michaels comes out of retirement and wins Texas Wrestling Alliance (TWA) Championship
- HHG Corporation (ECW) files for bankruptcy
- Audio: TNN censors understand Japanese: Tajiri 'breaks up' with Torrie Wilson and gets censored
- Audio: The Rock's last ever non-PPV TV match (vs. Jeff Hardy, 2003)
- Audio: The Rock's memorable 'challenge' to Goldberg
- Umaga makes WWF Raw debut and lays out Ric Flair
- Kevin Nash returns to WWF TV after nine-month absence due to a quad tear
- Roddy Piper returns to WWF TV after seven-year absence and has first 'Piper's Pit' in fourteen years
- Audio: Vince McMahon and The Product Of His Semen vs. Shawn Michaels and God announced for Backlash PPV
- All five members of The Spirit Squad are recognized as WWE Tag Team Champions
- Mickie James, complete with blonde hair, cosplays Trish Stratus
- Audio: Jack Swagger cashes in MITB Briefcase and wins World Heavyweight Championship
- CM Punk attempts to have Darren Young join the Straight Edge Society
- Things do happen in threes. TNA Impact episode holds the goofy TNA Knockouts Lockout Challenge, unprotected chairshots to the head, and Orlando Jordan simulating an ejaculation to his chest (2010)
- Wrestlicious fails miserably and closes its doors
- WWE signs Dean Ambrose and Becky Lynch
- The Rock vs. John Cena announced a year before WrestleMania XXVIII
- Sin Cara (original) makes WWE Raw debut
- Kurt Angle pleads guilty to reckless driving after 03/25/11 DWI incident in North Dakota
- Audio: Following a very boring John Cena promo on Raw, Brock Lesnar returns to WWE after eight-year absence and F-5's Cena
- Daniel Bryan 'breaks up' with AJ Lee
- Scott Steiner goes on Twitter storm against TNA and Hulk Hogan
- Looking back at Ring of Honor: Supercard of Honor 2013, 2014, 2022 and 2024
- Looking back at NJPW: Invasion Attack 2013-2015
- Audio: One of the loudest crowd 'pops' in Raw history: D